Last year, the Sunday right after Thanksgiving I put up the Christmas tree with just the lights. I had intended to finish it after work but each week night I was too tired to do it. I get home after 7 PM and generally want to eat and relax. So the tree went a week [...]
Family
We are your typical American consumers
Sometimes you plan on buying one thing and end up getting something slightly different. As part of my job responsibility, I provide support after hours. It’s not something that happens frequently because the first and second level support is really good. If a problem is escalated to me during my personal time, I don’t question [...]
10th anniversary of 9/11
It’s Sunday morning on the 10th anniversary. A few days ago while watching the coverage my son asked me if I “recovered from that day”. He’s 9 years old and wasn’t born until December 2001. That’s an odd question for me. I had nothing to recover from. I’ve never suffered from anxiety and as far I [...]
The Gakkenflex is a cool kit camera
My son received a camera from his uncle, a cool Fuji STX-2 SLR with a 50mm lens. The girl wanted to have a camera too. So rather than get another film camera from eBay, I went to Makershed and ordered a Gakkenflex kit. I mean, fair is fair right? This is a TLR camera meaning it has [...]
2011 Trip to China
It’s amazing what can happen in a few months. The whole family and I went to China for 21 days and it was a great trip. In order we flew from JFK -> HKG -> PEK/BJS -> XIY ->PVG -> CAN -> Zhaoqing -> HKG -> TSA -> HKG -> JFK. In plain English we went to [...]
Middle age? It took me forever to get here
As you get older, your habits change and you do different things. In the past I have spent a great deal of time building Linux servers and running my domain’s mail and spam filters, my own web servers for family web sites, ftp server, and sometimes hosting a game server. Linux and open source software [...]
First snow of the season
It’s not exactly a white Christmas, but snow fall on the 26th is close enough. Looks like we’re going to have a lot of snow for Monday morning. It’s still coming down but I’ve already done a test run on the snow thrower. The kids are off next week so if not today, they’ll get [...]
Polish Town run successful!
It’s Christmas Eve and we’re are prepared for the big day. This year we’ve all enjoyed a nice and quiet holiday season. Some years we do the last-minute shopping spree, but not this time. Our good planning worked and we’re all set. Just to make sure that all is right in the world, we headed [...]
Go visit the American Airpower Museum
Yesterday while Lily was out with our daughter shopping and swimming (in that order) I took our son to the American Airpower Museum. On Veteran’s Day the museum dedicated a Sherman tank and I knew he wanted to see it. You can see the photos I took Saturday as well as other days on my [...]
“Really pushes my buttons”
I’m driving my 8-year-old son to the train station to pick up his mother after work at the train station. He’s telling me about a kid that bothered him in school last year. Him: Dad, he made me very upset. He really pushes my buttons. Me: Well, try not to get worked up. If you [...]
